Horner, Walter Ernest, Private, 4218, 11th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire Enlisted Perth, Western Australia Killed in action 16th April 1917 aged 30 Son of John and Mary Ann Horner, of Upper Vann Farm, Hambledon, Godalming, Surrey, England. Commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial
1911 Census A colliery labourer above ground Son of John, an institute caretaker, and Mary Horner, of Nursery Farm, Calow, Derbyshire
Australian Army Service records information: Walter Horner enlisted on the 7th September 1915 at Perth in Western Australia. He was employed as a yardman, and stated his next of kin as his father, John Horner, of Upper Vann Farm, Hambledon, Surrey, and late of Nursery Farm, Calow, Derbyshire. Five feet eleven inches tall, he weighed 154 pounds, had a sallow complexion, brown eyes and dark brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England.
Born Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire
Enlisted Perth, Western Australia
Killed in action 16th April 1917 aged 30
Son of John and Mary Ann Horner, of Upper Vann Farm, Hambledon, Godalming, Surrey, England.
Commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial
1911 Census
A colliery labourer above ground
Son of John, an institute caretaker, and Mary Horner, of Nursery Farm, Calow, Derbyshire
Australian Army Service records information:
Walter Horner enlisted on the 7th September 1915 at Perth in Western Australia. He was employed as a yardman, and stated his next of kin as his father, John Horner, of Upper Vann Farm, Hambledon, Surrey, and late of Nursery Farm, Calow, Derbyshire.
Five feet eleven inches tall, he weighed 154 pounds, had a sallow complexion, brown eyes and dark brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England.
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